Citizens Without Frontiers

States define who their citizens are and exert control over their life and movements. But how does such power persist in a global world where people, ideas, and products constantly cross the borders of what the states see as their sovereign territory? This groundbreaking work sets to examine and interprets such challenges to offer a new way of thinking about citizenship. Abandoning the sovereignty principle, it develops a new image of citizenship using the connectedness principle. To do so, it interprets acts of citizenship by following "activist citizens" across the world through case studies, from Wikileaks and the Gaza flotilla to China's virtual world and Darfur.Written by a leader in the field, this accessible and original work imagines citizens without frontiers as a politics without community and belonging, inclusion without exclusion, where the frontier becomes a form of otherness that citizens erase or create. This unique work brings forth a new and creative way to approach citizenship beyond boundaries that will appeal to anyone studying citizenship, social movements, and migration.

Preface     Chapter 1: Of those whose acts traverse frontiers    Act 1: Of treason: WikiLeaks    Act 2: Of rage: Rachel Corrie    Act 3: Of disobedience: conscientious or civil?     Chapter 2: ‘We, the people'    Act 4: Of defense: Minuteman Civil Defense Corps    Act 5: Of censoring: the Golden Shield Project    Act 6: Of espionage: Stuxnet    Act 7: Of assassination: drones    Act 8: Of writing: Banksy    Act 9: Of solidarity: Strangers into Citizens    Chapter 3: ‘We, the connected'    Act 10: Of identification: We are all Khaled Said    Act 11: Of hacking: LulzSec    Act 12: Of defiance: No One Is Illegal    Act 13: Of staging: Climate Camp    Chapter 4: Enacting citizenship    Act 14: Of speech: Waging Peace    Act 15: Of fury: Mariyam Manike     Chapter 5: Citizens without frontiers    Act 16: Of declaration: ‘We, the Roma Nation'    Act 17: Of resistance: International Solidarity Movement    Act 18: Of sharing: Open Rights Group     Chapter 6: Emancipating (acts of) citizenship    Act 19: Of enfranchisement: If the World Could Vote    Act 20: Of music: Barenboim without words     Bibliography     Index